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- Though the catastrophe that destroyed the dinosaurs' world may have
begun with blazing fire, it probably ended with
icy darkness.
- Hair and fur could be our
window
to the past, according to scientists who have just extracted and
cloned DNA from a 64,800-year-old bison. Amazing stuff.
- A Utah rancher harbored a
prehistoric
trove.
- A Dinosaur Auction is assailed for offering
illegal fossils.
- Research shows that many medications draw their punch from
common weeds.
- A set of ancient
Maori heads
is destined to return to New Zealand. That's nice.
- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a
band of brothers whom they believe helped to transport giant
bluestones from the Preseli mountains in west Wales to build Stonehenge
more than 4000 years ago.
- A frustrated Welshman is calling on the Bronze Age
builders who built Stonehenge return to their homeland and install his
central heating. They are, uh, dead, dude.
- Tooth growing experiments
bring
smiles.
- Honeybees' genes are the key to
hive air
conditioning.
- A new survey of the depths of the ice-capped Arctic Ocean could reveal
a
lost world of living fossils and exotic new species from jellyfish to
giant squid.
- Anyone for a little Texas Holdem? Here's a nice little article on the
ancient
history of games.
- Pleasure receptors best known for helping the body respond to morphine
and opium may also hold the key to
mother-child bonding.
- The U. S. Air Force is testing
robots to protect bases and forward units. SkyNet alert.
- North Korea has demanded
massive energy aid in exchange for a nuclear freeze. Haven't we seen
this movie before?
- Dogs can
predict
epileptic seizures.
- Is polygraph testing junk
science?
- The world's
weather
goes electric.
- Microsoft has been awarded a patent for using
human skin as a power conduit and data bus. My skin? Can he do that?
- Scientists report that they have found a naturally
decaffeinated version of the world's most popular coffee bean.
- New light is shed on
dark energy.
- German Scientist Werner von Braun anticipated terrorists, asteroids
and ETs on
American's 'Enemy's List'.
- Historian and best-selling author Laurence Gardner discusses
ancient secret science.
- Bob White (TDG News Briefs 22-06-2004) is finding that his
UFO discovery is a tough sell.
- If you're somewhere near central Ohio, come to
Prospect Place for a ghost hunt.
- Learn why a human being does not live
1,000-years anymore.
- We visited with the Druids at Stonehenge earlier. What's a
Summer solstice like in Denmark?
- A team of scientists has discovered
two new molecules in an interstellar cloud near the center of the
Milky Way Galaxy.
- Here's some great pictures of the
first flight of SpaceShipOne, the first private venture ship to leave
earth's atmosphere and enter space.
Quote of the Day:
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
- Archdruid of Wales wants
Stonehenge
returned. Didn't the workpersons mean to build it there? "Syllddddsbpphyry,
not Salisbury you idiots!"
- Origins of farming pushed back
10,000
years to 23,000 BCE.
- Recent finds are giving us a new look at the
ancient Maya.
- The
Long Man of Wilmington chalk figure may be only a few centuries old.
- Gypsy groups accuse IBM of aiding
Nazi mass-murder.
- Not to be outdone, Holocaust victims sue Germany for
$18 billion
for holding stolen artworks.
- Mummy of a child stolen from
ancient
Egyptian tomb.
- Random noise in our visual systems may be the key to the enigma of the
Mona
Lisa's smile.
- Listen to the
birth cry
of the cosmos. Five million years compressed into 5 seconds.
- NASA plans
cash prizes in wake of SpaceShipOne's success.
- Astrobiology analyses Cassini's flyby of Saturn's mysterious
moon,
Phoebe.
- Where will travellers of the
21st century look for destinations of interest?
- Get out your prospecting gear Bill: Texas hit by
asteroid 58 million years ago.
- Exploring crop circles through the documentary
Stardreams.
- Bigfoot - "There's a ton of evidence...a mountain of evidence. The
problem is that none of that evidence is
any good.
- Bigfoot - "We have
enough evidence here to warrant a government investigation into this
creature..."
- One of Scotland's most distinguished astronomers and paranormal
researchers, Professor Emeritus Archie Roy,
speaks his
mind.
- Giant sea blobs are just
whale carcasses.
- Strange lights appear after
power failure.
- Hi-tech
clairvoyance. I don't think I'm that interested in the future.
- Secret sexual history of the
monk ghosts of BlackFriars Priory.
- You thought that was a great headline? Try this one:
Ronald McDonald charged after armed siege in nuclear bunker. The
headline is better than the story.
-
Quantum dots may brighten your home in the future.
- Chemical
eye chip becomes a reality.
- WHO warns of dangers of
alternative and
herbal medicines. What's on second.
- Creative side
unlocked by stroke.
- Holograms - high art or
just a
gimmick?
- Scientists cultivate beautiful silicon
nano-flowers.
- Net pioneer predicts the
future web.
- Suspicion of spyware on latest
Beastie
Boys CD. I'm tellin' y'all it's a sabotage.
- 'Mighty
Mouse' gene found in humans.
- This looks like fun...new X-Box and PS2 game: "Psi-Ops:
The Mindgate Conspiracy". Perhaps I should buy an X-Box before I buy
the game.
- Traditions of Atlantis in
Britain. The world's premier location for prehistoric concentric
circles.
-
St. George found in Welsh church.
-
Welsh helped build Stonehenge.
- A stone's
grow away?
- Mystery of the
Voynich manuscript.
- The mythical homeland of Mexico's Aztecs,
Aztlan, is clouded with spin and scholarly speculation.
-
Dilmun civilisation was one of the first to use a solar calendar?
-
Unseen clock may be operating in all forms of life, dictating the rate
of genetic change.
-
Archdruid wants Stonehenge back.
- Early humans may have started
talking half a million years ago. And they still haven't finished.
- A new look at the ancient culture of the
Maya.
-
Neanderthal man was not so dumb after all.
-
Cereals sought much earlier than thought.
-
Rock face mystery baffles experts.
-
Anomalies in first private spaceflight revealed.
- Probing the world of
alien abduction stories.
- Patriot
Act unleashed on biotech activists.
- Comet
not a dirty snowball? Wouldn't surprise me.
- Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 911: A conspiracy theory.
- Your life in the hands of your
postal worker.
- All disruptive children to be
forcibly medicated?
- The Anti-Defamation
League has called on the Texas Republican Party to modify its party
platform calling America a Christian nation.
- US media's dirty little
secret.
- Will the 911
commissioners cave?
- Judge compares Bush rise to power with
Hitler
and Mussolini.
-
Iran stands ready to attack the West.
- Like religion,
science
isn't a unified set of principles: it's a bunch of politicized factions.
- When the doctor
is also the executioner.
- Extraterrestrial impact created in the
lab.
- Outrage
over destruction of Celtic fort.
-
Genghis Khan: ancestor to millions.
- SpaceShipOne
makes history. A
blow-by-blow narrative. And the funky dude behind it all:
Paul Allen.
- The planetary
uncertainty principle. Should we terraform Mars?
- The
cosmic collision that gave birth to our Moon.
- Speaking of Moons, some of you might like to ask your
congressman why they attended the coronation of
Rev. Sun Myung Moon as the Prince of Peace, dresssed in maroon
robes and hailing himself as the second incarnation of Jesus in a
lavish ceremony held in a Senate office building. You can't make
this stuff up. Advertisement must be viewed to access article.
- UFO connection to crop circles
still
unsure.
- Bob White wants you to see his
metallic object, which he saw fall off a UFO.
- Is
Bigfoot out there?
- Has it come to this? Researchers test Bigfoot
buttocks imprint. That'd be one big ass.
- Paranormal research group explains
weirdness to the public. Listen to
some audio.
- Naked
shoppers hunt for bargains in London shopping centre. I guess
you could pick the shop-lifters by the way they walk.
- I have enough problem with my lawn...but
this lady says she even has a stone that grows.
- The Grayson County Courthouse is surrounded by
mysteries.
- The town of
Blind
River is right out of the X-Files - something is moving clocks
ahead by 10 minutes.
- Does the music
talk to
you? That's because it's language, dummy.
- Mmmm, pork fat covered in
chocolate.
'Supersize me' has nothing on this...
- Wireless pebbles to
track
glaciers. Personally I haven't seen too many wired up pebbles.
- Nuclear terror a
matter
of time. Sounds like a good time to buy a country home.
- Douglas Adams' voice to appear in new
radio adaptation of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- More on the Welsh creators of
Stonehenge.
- Outrage over
vandalism of 3,000-year-old Celtic fort in County Kerry,
Ireland.
- US and UK sign treaty to
protect Titanic.
- Study finds that dogs predict
epileptic seizures in children - and what's more act to
protect them.
- Global study links
climate change to rise in asthma rates in children.
- Scientists have engineered
a virus
which curbs cocaine cravings.
- How to trick cancer cells into
committing
suicide.
- Smoking triggers
genetic
changes.
- The
Earth Simulator retains its place as the world's fastest
supercomputer. That's right folks, this is just a simulation. The
real thing will begin in 2012.
- But finally, to the important question: why do men have
nipples?
Quote of the Day:
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the
liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the
liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves
the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations
Thomas Jefferson
- Rupert Sheldrake gets funky with his latest column for the
Daily Mirror, "Sexual
Telepathy". Somehow I can't see Marvin Gaye singing that...
- Meanwhile, Timothy Good says that aliens have been
living on Earth for a long time....and we're not the ones
running the place. Douglas Adams was on to something...
- Ghostly activity may be on
the increase in Wisconsin.
- Sylvia Browne says she's a
telephone. I think James Randi may have called her worse.
- David Booth, the
disposable prophet of the apocalypse.
- Documentary shines light on the
sex magick of former conductor of the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra.
- 3CPO and Astroboy are to be inducted in the Robot's
Hall
of Fame. Wonder if there'll be a jam as good as Prince's
induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame?
- SpaceShipOne takes off for the 100km mark today - but is it a
historic flight or just
stunt-flying? Would you
climb aboard for the first flight? Even if you don't make
launch time, here's a
viewer's guide.
- Astrobiology has posted the final instalment of the
Great Terraforming Debate. The previous five articles are
linked from the bottom of the page if you haven't been keeping up.
- Should we rename Comet Wild 2 to 'Dark
City'?
-
Eckankar, a New Age religion that emphasises spiritual
development.
-
Adding a chromosome may be just the trick for gene therapies
to treat genetic diseases. 46&1 is just ahead of me.
- WHO lists Europe's top 5
child-killers.
- Future cities to
swelter in summer.
- Stonehenge built by
Welshmen? I don't think so, otherwise it would have been
called Styphonddggehengyrrrrre or similar.
- Regardless of who built it, Stonehenge always has plenty of
friends come the
Summer
Solstice. Let's hope they stay friendly to the old girl.
- The
White Mountain treasure still inspires searchers.
- Hilltop sites in Arizona functioned as
communications hub over 100s of kilometres.
- Whassamada Torquemada? Vatican
downsizes
the Inquisition. Is that like neo-Nazis downsizing the Holocaust?
- The problem with restoring Cairo's
Islamic archaeological treasures.
- Archaeologists seek to unlock answer to
mystery anchors.
- Identical twins break arms
identically.
- Trackers to search for Sydney's
mysterious black panther.
- The skull of Tyrannosaurus rex acted like a giant shock absorber
to support his
flesh-ripping lifestyle.
- Brazilian scientists have discovered a
ratfish, a species of fish that has been swimming the seas since
dinosaurs walked the Earth.
- The mystery of the
longest surviving mammoths.
- Scientists have discovered
skeletons
in southern Mexico that could be more than 3,000 years old. Olmecs?
Video and pics.
- The huge mound on the Rum River couldn't be a
burial site because, 'It's beyond human comprehension, building
something like that'.
- Ancient maps and corn help track the
migrations of indigenous people.
- Prehistoric
rock faces in Northumberland baffle the experts. For more
baffling, visit the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumberland Website and see
the rock art photo
gallery.
- Egyptian
tombs older than the great pyramids of Giza reveal a complex
society.
- Federal police have seized
dinosaur eggs and fossils worth millions of dollars during raids
south of Perth.
- U.S. Customs officials have returned to Guatemala 26 pieces of
Mayan artifacts that survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks.
- Ding! Your mail has been intercepted. Five mummified skulls from a
pre-Inca culture were discovered in the Peru mail.
- If research released by the Vatican is right, the
Inquisition was not as bad as one might think.
- A guy in Tanzania laced his wife's half-eaten body with poison to
kill rogue
lions that are terrorizing villages. It worked.
- Donkeys once
heehawed out of Africa.
- Science and native Indian spirituality
clash over a lost and lonely killer whale (who may be a
reincarnated chief) on Canada's Pacific Coast.
- Chinese
panda
porn results in a pregnant female. Kinky.
- It's not exactly the Star Trek transporter, but scientists have
performed a successful
teleportation on atoms for the first time.
- Pollution controls are going very well in California. The woman
who helped design Southern California's
pollution-credit anti-smog program was arrested for allegedly
defrauding companies.
- Scientists say they have found how to change
promiscuous wayward males into attentive home-loving husbands.
Make them into steers?
- Researchers are developing devices aimed at protecting pilots and
soldiers from
blinding lasers.
- NASA data shows that hurricanes help
plants bloom in 'ocean deserts'.
- A German zoologist says
bees aren't as busy as people are led to believe.
- The high priest of British white witches plans to contact
Nessie's ghost in a séance.
- There's nothing natural about this
alien
invasion.
- The secret Cold War program
Skyhook
was the likely progenitor of many key aspects of UFO mythology.
- The
surface of this comet surprised NASA.
- Researchers show how Jupiter's moon Io vaporize
rock gases into atmosphere.
- Did comets
flood
Earth’s oceans?
- How would
aliens from Mars view us?
Quote of the Day:
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not
belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking
part in them?'
H. G. Wells
- Archaeologist solves mystery of monk who stole the
bones of a saint.
-
Review of Ancient Medicine (Amazon
US/UK)
by Vivian Nutton, which details the story of ancient medicine from
early Greece (8th century BC) to Late Antiquity (7th century AD).
- Project Ghost Hunt has plenty of fun with
pub spirits after closing time. It's a one-liner with no extra
help required.
- Ghosts also for
San Antonio Paranormal Investigators at the Jailhouse Cafe.
- SpaceShipOne runs on
rubber fuel. Flubber?
- Not content to be doing great things with SpaceshipOne, Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen is also behind the
Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Get your Enterprise
uniform on and beam on down if you're in the area.
- President Bush's Moon to Mars Commission labels NASA a 'relic
of the Apollo age'. Sounds like NASA's about to be torn apart.
- Perhaps not if John Kerry is elected: "NASA is an
invaluable asset to the American people and must receive adequate
resources to continue its important mission of exploration."
- Utah rocks could help explain
Martian 'blueberries'.
- Astrobiology continues its excellent 7-part series on the
'Great Terraforming Debate' with
Part 3. Also see Part
1 and
2. Tres cool astrobiologist David Grinspoon is one of the
participants, make sure you read
my review of his
book Lonely Planets as well - definitely worth purchasing, it's
a great read (available from Amazon
US and
UK).
- Quantum computing a step closer as scientists confirm
quantum teleportation. Where does the science end and the magic
begin?
- Octupuses have a
preferred arm.
I know left and right, but what do we call the ones in-between? And
shouldn't that be octopi?
-
Five UFOs in the sky above Emley.
- Meteorite the 'size
of a house' explodes over Australia. Gotta love the police
statement: "There was no bloody great rock sitting in the middle of
the highway, anyway".
- Are mountain lions attacking pets in
Kentucky?
- Listen to
your dreams - you never know when you might have to save someone
from a rocket fuel explosion.
- Thoughts captured in
real-time.
- Medical implants to be powered by
body
heat.
- Anti-depressant
nerve stimulator device approved by FDA.
- UK and US conspiring on
nukes?
- Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a
lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied
for sale to military and police forces in the US and Europe. And the
funny thing is - we pay the wages of these government research
organisations. Go figure.
-
Laurence Gardner on ancient secret science.
-
Big oil and the wars on drugs and terrorism.
- Astounding
discovery from old moon images.
- Fractional Reserve Banking as
Economic Parasitism.
- I sing the body's
pattern recognition machine.
- An
inflatable space.
- Acid-fast
bacteria implicated in prostate cancer?
-
Corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy
catastrophe in modern U.S. history.
- Why did Ike support revising the
pledge of
allegiance.
- Are there really
mole people
living under New York City?
- Odd (b)lack
hole defies explanantion.
- Cannabis
triggers transient schizophrenia-like symptoms. Next: cannabis can
reduce symptoms of autism.
- Phoebe's surface reveals clue to
origin.
-
Cosmetic surgery was born 2500 years ago and came of age in the
inferno of the Western Front.
- Psychology and the
conflict in Iraq.
- Bioterror grand jury trial begins for
art
professor.
- Testosterone damps
pain
sensation in males.
-
Rupert Sheldrake: The need for open-minded scepticism - a reply to
David Marks.
- Some think
telepathy is biologically based.
- In the shadow of
Babylon.
- Archaeologists in Egypt unearth 5000 year old
necropolis with 20 tombs.
Quote of the Day:
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by
itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third
which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the
first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is
useless.
Machiavelli
- Taking life's
final exit. Really nice piece.
- Climber says Mount Everest is
haunted by spirits.
- Teenagers really like the new magazine-style
Revolve Bible. Wonder what'll be in the next issue?
- 'Invisibility cloak' inventor looks to make
invisible
walls, as others worry about the criminal implications. "It would
become incredibly difficult to spot a thief...if the items they were
taking were simply disappearing under the cloak." Ummm, doesn't that
happen with a normal cloak/coat/pocket anyhow?
- Memory fails
under stress, throwing into doubt witness testimony extracted
during psychological trauma.
- Cocaine vaccine stops
addiction.
- Parkinson's vaccine
shows promise.
- Independent inquiry to be held into
Gulf War
Syndrome.
- Scientists determine solar storm
speed limit. Who's going to give the Sun a ticket?
- Taiwanese space authorities say they may sell imagery from their
brand-spankin'
Earth Observation satellite.
- Cassini sends back some nice pictures
of Phoebe. No, not some Italian voyeur on holiday...it's the
Cassini space probe.
- Milky Way's
satellite enigma solved.
- Giving life back to Mars - a debate on
terraforming the Red Planet. Astrobiology just keeps
serving up the tasty stuff.
- Nessie, UFOs, and ghosts -
where are they all? I think the best measure of weirdness is my
spare time...and it has been non-existent for a couple of months.
Somebody pass on a few decent web addresses to this guy.
- Analysis of the
Utah UFO. Obviously can't be a UFO as we're in a weirdness
drought.
- But wait, there's more - exhibition traces
UFO signs
in Slovakia.
- Researcher returns for another crack at the
Sumatran Yeti (known to his friends as orang-pendek).
- What do you do with a
piece of UFO?
Leave it at the scene like a hubcap?
- Research on Nazi
underground systems.
- American travel writer Bill Bryson wins the Aventis Prize for his
book A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Amazon
US/UK).
- Divers fail to find Babe Ruth's piano in
Sudbury Pond. It's like a mix'n'match headline isn't it?
- Richard Branson sets the record for the
fastest crossing of the English Channel by an amphibious vehicle.
If Sir Rich needs to spend big to keep himself entertained, me and my
balloon animals are just waiting for the call.
- Iraqi authorities smash
illegal trade in ancient artifacts.
- More on the
new discovery in Egypt.
Quote of the Day:
What if Earth
Be but t' shadow of Heaven, and things therein,
Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?
Milton
Quote of the Day:
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere of which
we do not know what is stirring in it, or how it is connected with our
own spirit. So much is certain, that in particular cases we can put out
the feelers of our soul beyond its bodily limits, and that a
presentiment, nay, an actual insight into the immediate future, is
accorded to it.
Goethe
- Global warming. Rising sea levels. Massive volcanic activity
around the world. Widespread erosion. It’s not a scene from the latest
Hollywood disaster film, The Day After Tomorrow, but the
Earth as it appeared during the mid- to late-Cretaceous geological
period, 135-million to 65-million years ago, when the largest
dinosaurs ruled the planet.
- The
smallest dinosaur was the size of a sparrow!
- Dinosaurs did not engage in
head-to-head combat.
- Rat study elucidates long-ago
human migration.
- A
Mayan priest comments about the rare Venus transit. Yeah, well,
what does he know? ;o)
- Allowing a mammoth expansion of North Dakota's largest
coal mine would cut a devastating swath through American Indian
graves and cultural symbols. Easy call if one doesn't need electricity
from that coal.
- Archaeologists have dug up a thousand-year-old
padded bra.
- Spiral patterns carved into a small jade ring show use of
complex machines more than 2500-years ago.
- A former circus owner bought Wookey Hole a year ago and said the
bones of a witch should be returned to the cave there. Toss-up.
- Building starts on
Texas Stonehenge.
- It was not wars, but
water woes, that ended Angkor's empire.
- Hoping to learn more about undersea volcanoes, scientists capture
an underwater eruption
on tape. Do those eruptions make the water warmer?
- Why the
'Lost
Gospels' lost out.
- Soaking string in the blood of a black dog and wrapping it around
homes offers protection from the dreaded
phi
porp – a female ghost that kills married men and eats their
innards. Some days it just doesn't pay to be a black dog.
- A dead
wallaby discovered on a remote Scottish island sparks a mystery.
-
Mad-Cow disease in cattle and human beings.
- Follow-up: Everyone's got an opinion on the photo of a
mysterious creature.
- Here's some good news for those people who
talk to dogs.
That's you, isn't it?
- The world's most famous endangered species, the Chinese
giant panda, appears to be in much better shape than previously
thought.
- New research shows that the
seasons may be involved in the onset of menopause.
- Clowns can
strike terror into some people's hearts. I've never liked clowns.
- The tale of a boy whose brain keeps telling him he's
still hungry.
- Lights-out policies in cities are helping to save the lives of
thousands of
migrating birds.
- It's big head and bulging eyes, this ugly-cuss, rare
sea
creature washes ashore. Click on the 'IMAGES'.
- Pumping energy
to nanocrystals from a quantum well.
- Top quark measurements give the
God particle a new lease on life.
- Microscopy moves to the
picoscale.
- UA study on
near-death experiences looks at brain.
- See the
flood plains on Mars courtesy of the the ESA Mars Express
spacecraft.
- Pterosaurs are
still living on the islands of Papua New Guinea. Lots of videos of
people that have seen Pterosaurs; no video of Pterosaurs.
- The
giant blast over New Zealand is believed to be a meteor.
- Researchers have for the first time detected molecular
nitrogen in interstellar space.
- This odd
black hole defies explanation. Don't they all?
Quote of the Day:
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
- Latest ice cores give
Earth's climate a clean bill of health for the next 15,000
years. You can pull your trousers up now Miss Gaia.
- Travelling England, getting a bit of
Yin-Yang out of crop circles. Beautiful area the south of
England, replete with stunning megaliths...make sure you visit
sometime in your life.
- A review of
Megalithic Mysteries Of Cornwall.
- Make sure you change in your currency and stock up on the
Galacto before the UFOs open trade negotiations. Has anyone
consulted Alan Greenskin about this?
- Visiting monks urge
spiritual advancement.
- Mars rover Spirit finds more evidence of past water as it
prepares to
head for the hills. Would that be considered spiritual
advancement?
- If Spirit doesn't make it up the hill, perhaps one day
this little sucker will.
- Moon-Mars report to be released a little late, on
June 16.
- New NASA satellite to check on the
air we breathe.
- Some lovely images of the
Venus transit. The cosmic dance continues...
- Heart of French boy king finds a
resting place at last.
- Does Benny Hinn pray or
prey?
- More treasures found beneath the sea at
Alexandria. I wonder whether Zahi is getting scuba training...
-
Perfect pterosaur found in fossil egg. Mmmm, fossil eggs.
-
Rainer W. Kühne's "Location and dating of Atlantis".
- The golden ratio, the source of all things divine.
Bunkum,
apparently.
- Before tackling Titan, the Cassini probe will
fly-by Phoebe.
- Birds know how to keep their
cells young. Anyone know the language of the birds?
- Atkins dieters celebrate - the
low-carb potato is on its way.
- Autism symptoms in mice linked to
vaccine ingredient.
- When is a UFO not a UFO? When it's sometimes a man-made UAV
(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Check out
the gallery,
and see what I mean.
- Dead wallaby found on
Scottish
island. Work of a hopeful Scottish rugby fan perhaps?
- Nigeria divided over ban on
television
miracles. I define a television miracle as turning on the TV
and finding something on that is actually worth watching.
- Next reality TV show in the works -
Ghosthunters.
- Ghosts and paranormal phenomena in
Pacheco Pass.
- Robert Bauval goes and visits
Mr Big
in Memphis.
Quote of the Day:
Today history is what we say it is.
Unnamed Television Executive
- The interplanetary day after tomorrow. #1.
#2.
#3.
- Earth is much
younger than scientists claim and dinosaurs co-existed with
the first humans.
-
More and more
on Atlantis in Spain.
- Dinosaur's secret is in
small
print.
- Theory of early human migration patterns proposes the
North.
-
Green sweat puzzles Chinese doctors.
- Proof for the
Riemann hypothesis?
- Water woes, not wars, ended
Angkor empire.
- Elephants turn to
seismic
communication.
- Origin of enigmatic galactic
filaments revealed?
- We weren't made to
multitask.
- Eco glass
cleans
itself with Sun.
- Black hole
illuminates dust cloud.
- Is
Genghis Khan an Ancestor? Mr. DNA Knows.
-
911: The Cleveland Airport mystery.
- Congressman exposes vaccine
fraud
at the CDC. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Cattle
polio
fears threaten industry.
- The
thermochemical joy of cooking.
- Step on the
gas.
- Rat DNA
clue
to sea migration.
- Small world's big
achievement.
-
Sloppy stats shame science.
- Sea
change for first shells.
- Bold
motorists clear roads.
-
Signs of 8000 year old culture found near Bedford.
Quote of the Day:
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place
it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
- Want to see something no living person has witnessed before?
Check out the
solar transit of Venus today (just you and the other billion
people). Like a good parent, I'll ask that you take protection
with you.
- Experimental pill halts breast cancer in
eight weeks.
- On July 1st, we'll get closer to
Saturn than we have ever done before, courtesy of the Cassini
probe. They'll have to set up a cable TV channel devoted entirely
to space exploration soon.
- Explanation put forward for Milky Way galaxy's
mysterious filaments. Perhaps it's unravelling.
- NASA decides on
high-risk plunge into crater for Mars rover Opportunity.
- Brisbane statue still far from
miraculous. Quite the publicity-gainer though.
-
Green sweat puzzles Chinese doctors. The disturbing aspect is
that the doctor is fine with red and blue sweat, but is upset
about green sweat.
- Ghostbusters called into
haunted theatre. Two decades on, but it seems ghostbusting is
becoming a respectable profession.
- Can dying people postpone their death until after a meaningful
event has passed? New research
says no.
-
Review of Barbara Weisberg's TALKING TO THE DEAD, the
story of the (in?)famous Fox sisters.
- Satanic ritual blamed for death of
Italian teens.
- Maverick inventor's amazing electric motor uses
permanent
magnets to its advantage. Don't we all love a maverick
inventor.
- Farmers to control wi-fi herds from home like a
computer game? Good news for Grandma Grail who was target
practice for one of her cows last weekend.
- Biotech crops
cropping up where they shouldn't.
- Is the world's oil
running
out quickly? Hard to tell - one news story says this, the next
says oil is here to stay. Perhaps we should all run our engines
24/7 and settle this debate quickly.
- Hospital tests
barcoding of patients. Here's hoping you're never labelled
'out of stock'.
- The skylarks did it!
Crop
circles help boost skylark populations.
- Ancient Islamic map shows
egg-shaped England.
- Pharaoh Zahi says the Egyptian Museum will begin proper
recording and storage of its treasures after some items
disappeared.
- Petra: an
eroding archaeological treasure.
-
Embryonic stem cells link up as neurons, suggesting positive
outcomes for use in brain diseases.
- US doctor
loses job
after suggesting we are paranoid about the dangers of the sun, and
need to spend some time outdoors to improve our Vitamin D levels.
Beware the orthodoxy Dr Holick!
- New research techniques could end
animal testing.
- Diabetes linked to
bowel
cancer.
Quote of the Day:
I remember hearing once of a little dying child shrinking timidly
from the idea of going alone; but just before the end there came a
spirit of sublime confidence, a supernatural opening of vision, a
recognition of some companionship, and the little one cried out: 'I
am not afraid; they are all here.' ... I believe the chamber of the
dying is filled with the holy angels.
Basil Wilberforce
- Ronald Reagan dies
at 93 of pneumonia, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for a decade.
- A scientist says that satellite photographs may show the remains of
the lost city of
Atlantis.
- A meteorite the size of Mt. Everest plummeted into the Earth with such
force nearly 2-billion years ago that it caused part of the Earth's
crust to flip inside-out.
- Ancient map shows an
egg-shaped England
- There have been some
exciting finds beneath the sea at Alexandria lately, including one of
the Seven Wonders of the World.
- Egypt is about to begin the five-year task of
cataloguing and restoring some 90,000 Pharaonic and other artifacts
which have lain almost forgotten for decades since they were dug from
ancient ruins. Good idea -
artifacts seem to be walking out the door.
- The digging this season has been especially good at remote
Maya ruins in the jungles of Guatemala.
- Continents played a key role in the collapse and regeneration of
Earth's early greenhouse.
- Modern-day Vikings retrace the
sailing trip
through the Caucasus.
- Magic makers are angry as
Houdini's spell is broken.
- British ducks quack with distinct
regional
accents. Cheerio, ducks.
- The subject of conspiracy theories, the
Bilderberg group,
marks its 50th anniversary amid secrecy and rumor.
- The real Dr. Gartrell
comes forward. This only makes sense if you've been following the "Aussie
Bloke'.
- The
second pictogram (crop circle) for 2004 in Poland was discovered amid
an onion crop on Sunday, May 23, 2004.
- A bizarre
horse mutilation occurred in Northwestern Missouri.
- A
triangular craft was video-taped flying over the top of a helicopter.
With video.
- A UFO was caught on film flying
around a
passenger jet airliner.
- The CIA and KGB were fighting for an
alien's dead body.
- Bluish milk is diluted with chalk, and 19-other
food
myths.
- Arctic cores offer
climate clues.
- Cloned sheep go berserk! Alan Boyle has a plot summary of 'deliciously
bad' movies that use
shaky-science as a plot basis. The contest was inspired by the king of
junk science movies,
The Day After Tomorrow.
- This Massachusetts community works with
solar power.
- Indonesian authorities began evacuating villagers from the slopes of
Mount Awu, an
active volcano in northern Indonesia.
- Forget global warming. Beginning or ending abruptly every alternately
11,500 years, ice ages
occur on a dependable, predictable, naturally recurring cycle. The next
ice age could begin any day. Not by Fire but by Ice is available
from Amazon
US and
UK.
- TV's
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is being discussed in groves of
academe as the New American Buddhism.
- Scientists find a
new
type of gene in junk DNA. That doesn't sound like junk, does it?
- The
first quantum cryptography network is unveiled.
- Once written-as a cognitive dead end in the primate family tree,
lemurs may hold the keys to primate intellect evolution.
- Britain fights for the
giant squid.
- NASA will
risk
sending Opportunity into a crater.
- The planet Venus is set to make a very
rare
passage across the face of the Sun. People interested the
transit of
Venus across the sun have been warned that looking directly at the sun
could leave them blind.
- The public helps keep
hope
alive for Hubble.
Quote of the Day:
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the
north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant
light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.
Ezekiel 1:4
- Geologists digging deep into the
Chesapeake Bay impact crater are uncovering more signs of a space rock
that smacked us 35-million years ago.
- A Danish student found some
dinosaur footprints that were left by a sauropod 170-million years
ago.
- An
ancient belch may have have triggered extinctions like the demise of
the dinosaurs 10 million years before the Eocene.
- A helmet-shaped critter that dates back 600-million years may be
ancestor of most animals.
- The
ancient Egyptians enjoyed political satire, scatological and vomiting
humor, jokes concerning sex, slapstick, and animal-based parodies. Doesn't
everyone?
- Pollution in North America
falls 10-percent over three years.
- Does the
Atlantis myth represent a memory of major Earth change?
- Were the 'Giants On The Earth' really
genetic experiments?
- Soldiers in Iraq help
preserve
5,000-year old archeological sites.
- The trial of two men accused of stealing ancient artwork from an
American Indian site has sparked a discussion about the best way to
protect artifacts — by keeping them secret or posting signs.
- What goes on in the brain of a
gambler? Seeing the other side of eleven's tummy on the first roll
isn't a bad sign, is it?
- The Techno Maestro's
Amazing Machine.
This is either bogus or incredible, I can't decide which.
- The Catholic Church has enlisted a retired chemistry professor to
determine whether religious objects in a Brisbane church are actually
bleeding and
weeping.
- Baby food could trigger
meningitis.
- Can nuclear radiation
improve human health?
- Put your phasers on 'stun'. An
invisible beam tops list of the Pentagon's new, nonlethal weapons.
- Huge, freed
pet pythons have invaded the Florida Everglades.
- Scientists are finding
strange life forms
in the Great Salt Lake.
- Plants are living creatures with
feelings.
- If it is true that
big cats haven't lived wild in the U.K. for 2,000 years, then there's
a lot of large house cats now roaming the British countryside.
- Love really is
blind.....
- A 17th-century solar oddity believed linked to
global cooling is rare among nearby stars.
- A
meteorite accompanied by sonic booms lit-up the skies in the U.S.
Pacific northwest.
- Chemtrails and
terror in the age of nuclear war.
- One of the UK's best-known scientists, Professor James Lovelock,
claims that we should fear the wrath of
Gaia.
- A seven-spoked, 166 feet diameter, 'wagon wheel'
crop circle has appeared in a wheat field in Peach Orchard, Arkansas.
- The Portuguese air force has been on alert since late on Tuesday, when
several authorities and witnesses reported seeing a silent,
luminous UFO. In English, even.
- Let's zoom-in on this
UFO
in Provo Canyon, Utah. Man, that thing looks like a classic flying saucer.
- It's time for a retro-UFO tale - an
arrowhead-UFO sighting that lasted for three-days.
- It is now June, the Impact is coming. Here's an
end of the world warning from 'Aussie Bloke'. Better tie-up those
loose-ends; don't say you weren't warned.
- It's not quite a fox, or a cat. Wait! It's an ....., uh,
unidentified creature photographed in North Carolina that stumps the
experts. With pic.
- The ability to
write
backwards in the form of mirror writing is probably inherited. I worry
more about people can taste sounds and hear colors.
- The Centaurus A galaxy's
last big meal was a spiral galaxy, now twisted into a
parallelogram-shaped structure of dust.
- An astronomer has turned observations of the early universe into a
sound clip that represents a
primal scream from the first million years after the Big Bang. It
doesn't sound like a bang.
- A major
galactic mystery has been solved that will help astronomers in their
quest to understand the chemical evolution of the Milky Way.
- Nearing the end of its seven-year journey to Saturn, the
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
has primed its engine in preparation for the real mission scheduled to
begin 30 June.
- It's a solstice celebration for SpaceShipOne:
June 21 set as launch date for attempt at first privately-funded
manned space flight.
- Meanwhile, NASA now optimistic about chances of success with
robotic
mission to save Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
- Speaking of robots, those Martian rovers just
keep roving.
- The 'nightmare
scenario waiting to happen' - chances of 'dirty bomb' attack rise
significantly.
- But who needs a dirty bomb when you can count on your own government
to dose
you up on plutonium?
- Archaeologists search for
lost Torah
near Auschwitz.
- Afghanistan's fabled
Bactrian Gold to tour the world.
- The archives of the Royal Geographic Society to be opened to
the public.
- Major excavation to open
Viking
graves.
- Following hot on the heels of the cicada plague, comes the
massive stink as they all die and rot. Ewww.
-
Asperger's Syndrome - not just a medical condition, but perhaps the
creator of geniuses.
- Retired chemistry professor to test Brisbane's
weeping statues.
And Randi's not one to miss an opportunity to get his name up in lights,
as he offers his
$1million prize if the church can prove the phenomenon is
supernatural. Can someone offer a $1million prize to prove that James
Randi's prize is bona fide (see
here and
here)?
- Star Dreams: A documentary about
crop circles.
- Man-made chemicals are affecting the development of
children's brains.
- Forget cold fusion, here comes
banana power.
- Alaskan quake of 2002
unblocked
geysers in Yellowstone Park.
- Genetically-modifed virus explodes
cancer
cells. Is that like the opposite to a dirty bomb?
- University unveils tool to check student essays for plagiarism from
4.5
billion webpages.
- Cattle mutilation in
Rio
Cuarto - hoax or the real deal?
- Book review of
Sync: The
Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, by Steven Strogatz (Amazon
US).
- Sir Paul McCartney reveals Beatles'
drug use.
My lord, I had no idea...the 60s have lost their innocence for me now.
Just think of the subversity - elevator music created by LSD-crazed
junkies. Where's the Christian Right when they're needed?
- Over the past two millennia, the star Polaris has brightened by
250%, and astronomers have no idea why.
- Man-made
calamity the world is ignoring.
- Dinosaurs wiped out in a few
hours.
- We are all
dimmed.
- Dinosaur
skull is evidence Africa broke off later than thought.
- Stormy
bands on ringed world.
- Planet Earth dims then
brightens.
- Study examines how brain creates detailed
recollections.
- New theory finds common ground between conflicting evidence for
first stars.
- How the City of London
runs the world. Is the Bank trying to
steer market views on rates?
- Putin and the mythical NGO
conspiracy.
- Folds at surface show
ancient seismic stresses still at work.
- Dark energy
tied to human origins.
-
Bananas to generate electricity?
- The march of the
killer toads.
- No such thing as paranoia; Part
1. Part
2 .
- Mystery
hand falls from the sky.
- A square of
dark chocolate a day could keep the cardiologist away.
- Comet
theory: the cause of the glowing tail. Or is it
antimatter?
- We can lament the mischief of hackers, thieves, and tricksters, or we
can
learn lessons in innovation from them.
- Up in the
air!
-
Pumped-up dummy does the ironing. Remember the autopilot in Airplane?
- GM
virus explodes cancer cells.
- Earthquakes beget
earthquakes near and far. More like making stretch marks.
-
Dead Sea to disappear in 50 years.
- Paranormal investigators earn their keep at Royal Navy
hangman's cell.
- Conman's role in IVF
prayer-power miracle exposed.
-
Supernatural tourism a lucrative niche market for tour operators.
- THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - why the world's press are wrong and
Whitley Strieber
is right.
- The
Bear Lake Monster has returned from the depths.
- Killer rash breaks out in
New York City.
I feel itchy already, and I'm half a world away.
- The strange life of self-declared genius, panty-fetishist and esoteric
author
Colin Wilson. DREAMING TO SOME PURPOSE: The Autobiography of Colin
Wilson is available from Amazon
US and
UK.
-
MacBeth's castle unearthed in Inverness? Not good enough, I want to
see an archaeologist saying "This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
nimbly and sweetly recommends itself, unto our gentle senses."
- Mel Gibson guaranteed to be panned for his proposed movie on Britain's
warrior queen
Boudicca, say experts. Just like that little film about Jesus I
suppose, gosh what a disaster that was for his bank balance.
- Mitochondrial mutations blamed for
aging. And here I was thinking it was time.
- Astronomers discover
youngest planet, only just turned one (million).
- Get yer
weeping Mary, hurry before they sell out.
- Global
winter followed dino impact. Jump on the bandwagon...
- Campaigners gather in fight to save
Silbury Hill.
- Archaeologists discover World War II plane that crashed near
Buckingham Palace.
- The
Genesis Mission sounds kooky - collect the solar wind, fall to Earth
and be caught in mid-air during descent by a helicopter. Sounds like good
television, bidders please.
- Mainstream rubbish?
Statistical flaws revealed in top journals' papers.
- Mysterious inscription on the
Great Pyramid? An
attempt at
decoding it.
- Robert Bauval has
been very prolific recently in updating his Giza News bulletin board,
including a post about possible new explorations
behind the
Sphinx.
- Archaeologists startled to discover
Neolithic ritual site.
- Bird’s-eye view of
the Amazon, airborne archaeologist challenges the myth of a pristine
wilderness.
- An archeological team working in
Bashir
Mount in the desert area of Palmyra (Tadmor) has unearthed 46
archeological sites that date back to 80,000 years BC.
- Microbes consuming
Mayan ruins.
-
Petra remains a lost city for many. Jordan's ancient ruins little
visited by tourists, making them even more attractive.
- A new discovery has created a great stir in Chinese archaeological
circles, as a
cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago with what may be a large
group of tombs of China's Western Zhou Dynasty.
- India pledges to restore
Angkor
temple.
-
Macbeth's castle unearthed in Inverness garden?
- Archaeologists in Hereford have uncovered evidence of a
15th Century workshop.
- Is London really based on
Troy?
- A replica of a 3,500-year-old
Bronze Age boat - built from clues left on ancient inscriptions and
artwork - set sail from the island of Crete Saturday to be showcased at
the Athens Olympics.
- Hollywood plans stir Celtic ghosts, as no fewer than four scripts on
Boudicca are in the works.
- Planets line up in
ecliptic over Giza (w/ pic).
- Raw
ingredients for life detected in planetary construction zones.
- Nasa's Spitzer telescope has found evidence around a distant star for
a planet
that may be less than one million years old.
- The
Universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide.
- Missing
black holes found.
- Milky Way churning out
new stars
at a furious pace.
- Atomic wings: a new mini-reactor revives the dream of a
nuclear-powered aircraft.
- Proposed nuclear-powered
Jupiter mission
defined.
- Panel to report on Moon-Mars
space plan.
- Mars rover
Opportunity endures 'deep sleep' with no harm.
-
Gravity Probe B mission status report.
- A powerful earthquake that shook Alaska in 2002 affected geysers and
hot springs at
Yellowstone National Park nearly 2,000 miles away in Wyoming.
-
Earthquakes beget earthquakes near and far.
- ‘Silent slips’ complicate
earthquake patterns.
- Dinosaur skull provides
geological
clues, scientists say dinosaur skull is evidence Africa broke off
later than thought.
- Mysterious majesty of
Mount
Fuji solved.
- Forget the CNN article from Friday's TDG news, the current story is,
one again, that Earth's
brightness is dimming. We like to report conflicting things around
here.
- Tens of thousands hit by
floods in Caribbean as more rains fall.
- Blackout gave cities a breath of
fresh
air.
- Arctic getting
warmer faster.
- The science, and fiction, of
Day After Tomorrow.
The deliciously baddest movies.
The
hijacking of "Tomorrow". Day After Tomorrow
a
wreck, special effects are amazing, but the rest ...
- Why I believe in
the paranormal by Colin Wilson. 'Now they will realise that I am a
genius', claims
Colin Wilson speaking of his auto-biography. Dreaming to Some
Purpose: The Autobiography of Colin Wilson is available at Amazon
US/UK.
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Ghostbusters enter spooked docks. Ghostbusters say
'docks
haunted'.
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